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Television Industry - Breaking Bad
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- 1-Genre -When it came out. -Who it's produced by. -Channels it was aired on.-Crime drama hybridised with black Comedy.
-Can be categorised as American Quality Television (AQA).
-The show ran 2008-2013.
-Produced by Sony Pictures.
-Originally aired on AMC in the U.S. Aired on channel 5 in the UK. Gained more popularity when featured on Netflix. - 2Crime drama genre conventions-Iconography: drugs and weapons (extreme close ups).
-Character types: Hero, Villain, helper etc.
-Narrative: Non-linear = starts with conflict. Throws audience straight into action.
-Action and Enigma = mystery.
-Privileged spectator position = camera shows them what the other characters can't see. Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows something that the characters don't.
-Realistic settings.
-Unconventional protagonist: antihero.
-Binary opposites. - 3Target audience-Educated Men
-Aged 18-55
-ABC1 social class - 4Representation-Gender.
-Ethnicity: negative stereotypes.
-Disability through Walt junior.
-Crime. - 5Focus episode + synopsis-Season 1 pilot episode (2008)
-Walter White is a chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with inoperable cancer after his 50th birthday.
-He is given less than two years to live and decides to turn to crime, specifically making crystal meth (which he is very good at doing) as way of securing his family's finances. - 6How much did each episode cost?-Each episode cost just over $3m.
- 7Audience positioning-Opening sequence camera positions audience in state of anxiety as Walt panics = as he apparently attempts to escape the authorities.
-Non-diegetic sound used to build tension.
-Sympathy = WW addresses his family (video) he directly addresses audience. - 8Privileged spectator position-Diagnosed with cancer, his wife is unaware = audience placed in a more intimate position with Walter.
-Therefore understand reasons for committing criminal activity that comes after. - 9Narrative conventions + structure-Enigma codes: flash forward.
-Action codes: WW crashes RV in flash forward emergency services passing = drives narrative forward as it becomes apparent Walts story can continue.
-Todorov's structure = beginning climax of narrative in form of flash forward.
-Levi-Strauss: Walt and Jesse are binary opposites (e.g. Age, job, background etc.)
-Propp character types = Walt: antihero.
Jesse = sidekick. Hank = antagonist. - 10Audio-Subject specific dialogue: lexis will differ according to type of crime being committed = BB: frequent use of specific language by Walter.
-Diegetic and non-diegetic sounds reflecting genre: in opening sequence of pilot the music is high tempo reflecting Walts apparent attempt to escape the police.
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